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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Imagery
Epic
1st Person
Character
2. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Antagonist
Reversal
Recognition
Diction
3. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Structure
Iamb
Spondee
Catharsis
4. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Diction
Dramatic Irony
Allusion
Suspense
5. A strong pause within a line.
Enjambment
Spondee
Caesura
Recognition
6. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.
Paradox
Rhythm
Trochee
Personification
7. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Stereotype
Metaphor
Figurative Language
Pyrrhic
8. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Figurative Language
Comic Relief
Plot
Apostrophe
9. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Symbolism
Denotation
Reversal
Irony
10. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Epigram
Epic
Villanelle
Syntax
11. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Understatement
Fiction
Solioquy
Synecdoche
12. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.
Nonfiction
Imagery
Audience
Allegory
13. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.
External Conflict
Dactyl
Motif
Epic
14. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Parody
Hyperbole
Verbal Irony
Synecdoche
15. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Understatement
Ballad
Point of View
Internal Conflict
16. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.
Complication
Structure
Fiction
Situational Irony
17. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Situational Irony
Alliteration
Rhyme
Climax
18. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Aphorism
Ode
Foot
Satire
19. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Foil
Quatrain
Catharsis
Hyperbole
20. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Stanza
Comic Relief
Blank Verse
Personification
21. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Denouement
Image
Villanelle
Myth
22. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Iamb
Meter
Elegy
Scenes
23. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Motif
Conflict
Allusion
Elegy
24. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Complication
Author's Purpose
Apostrophe
Denotation
25. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Tercet
Foreshadowing
Epic
Rhythm
26. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Solioquy
Situational Irony
Personification
Onomatopoeia
27. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.
Ballad
Parallelism
Dramatic Irony
Rising Action
28. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Aphorism
External Conflict
Subplot
Foil
29. A short saying with a moral.
Antagonist
Aphorism
Pyrrhic
Analogy
30. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.
Symbolism
Alliteration
Iamb
Dactyl
31. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Nonfiction
Theme
Personification
Metonymy
32. A three-line stanza.
Tercet
1st Person
Dialect
Apostrophe
33. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.
Simile
Aside
Onomatopoeia
Parody
34. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Rhyme
Falling Meter
Narrative Poem
Foil
35. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Recognition
Symbolism
Conflict
Dactyl
36. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Epigram
Parody
Tercet
Aubade
37. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Alliteration
Trochee
Epigram
Point of View
38. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
External Conflict
Understatement
Caesura
Subplot
39. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Convention
Parallelism
Aphorism
Sestina
40. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.
Symbol
Metonymy
Dialect
Nonfiction
41. The selection of words in a literary work.
Convention
Diction
Closed Form
Tercet
42. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.
Nonfiction
Alliteration
Climax
Analogy
43. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Reversal
Solioquy
Tone
Personification
44. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Parallelism
Personification
Complication
Fiction
45. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Denouement
Scenes
Symbolism
Exposition
46. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Internal Conflict
Blank Verse
Villanelle
Conceit
47. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Analogy
Closed Form
Parallelism
Rising Action
48. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Oxymoron
Rising Action
Free Verse
Voice
49. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Epic
Subject
Foot
Sestina
50. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
Metaphor
Mood
Complication
Syntax